Resources for Japanese Internment
Books
The Bracelet
Yoshiko Uchida, 1996
The Bracelet
Yoshiko Uchida (author)
Lesson Plan http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/units/byrnes-literature/JONES.html
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience Paperback
Lawson Fusao Inada, 2000
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a
Librarian Who Made a Difference
Joanne Oppenheim 2006
Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation
by Yoshiko Uchida 2004
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom
Diary
Michael O. Tunnell, 2011
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War
II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Citizen 13660
Mine Okubo, Christine Hong
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp (My Name Is America)
by Barry Denenberg
A Buried Past II: A Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project
Collection
Compiled by Yuji Ichioka & Eiichiro Azuma. 1999
And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
John Tateishi (Editor). 1984
An Enemy Among Friends
Kiyoaki Murata. 1991
Before the War: Poems as they Happened
Lawson Inada. 1971
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The Bill of Rights and the Japanese American World War II Experience.
National Japanese American Historical Society and San Francisco Unified School District. 1992
Blue Jay in the Desert
Marlene Shigakawa. 1993
By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
Greg Robinson. Harvard University Press. 2001
Changing Dreams and Treasured Memories: A Story of Japanese Americans in the Sacramento Region
Wayne Maeda. 2000
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp, Based on Classroom Diary
Michael O. Tunnell & George W. Chilcoat.
Confinement & Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
Jeffrey F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, & Richard W. Lord. 1999
Crossing the Phantom River
James Masao Mitsui. 1978
Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan, 1939-1946
Mary Kimoto Tomita, Robert G. Lee (Translator). 1996
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family
Yoshiko Uchida. University of Washington Press. 1998
Drawing the Line
Poems by Lawson Fusao Inada.
Lawson Fusao Inada. Coffee House Press. 1997
Enemies: World War II Alien Internment
John Christgau. 2001
The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami.
Edited by Claire Gorfinkel. Intentional Productions. 1995
Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans 1941-1945
Thomas James. 1987
The Experience of Injustice: Health Consequences of the Japanese American Internment
Gwendolyn M. Jensen. UMI Dissertation Services. 1997
Face of the Enemy, Heart of a Patriot: Japanese-American Internment Narratives
(Modern Eyes American History)
Ann Koto Hayashi / Hardcover. 1995
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A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II.
Ellen Levine. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1995
Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters During World War II
Eric L. Muller. University of Chicago Press. 2001
From a Three-Cornered World, New & Selected Poems.
James Masao Mitsui. University of Washington Press. 1997
From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps
Ed., Brian Komei Dempster. 2001
Go for Broke: A Pictoral History of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442d
Regimental Combat Team
Chester Tanaka / Hardcover. 1997
Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
Lyn Crost. 1996
Identity Crisis of the Sansei and the Concentration Camp
Nobu Miyoshi. Sansei Legacy Project. 1994
Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
(Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
Louis Fiset, Roger Daniels. 1998
The Invisible Thread: Memoir of a Girl Consigned to a Concentration Camp
Yoshiko Uchida. 1991
Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years
Daisuke Kitagawa. 1974
Japanese American Women: Three Generations 1890-1990
Mei Nakano. 1990
Japanese Americans and World War II: Exclusion, Internment, and Redress
Donald Teruo Hata, et al. 1995
Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress
Roger Daniels, et al. 1992
Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz
Sandra C. Taylor. 1993
Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II
Tetsuden Kashima. University of Washington Press.
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Justice at War
Peter Irons. 1993
Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases
Peter Irons (Editor). 1989
The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp.
Kikuchi, Charles. 1993
Legacy of Injustice : Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment
Donna K. Nagata. 1993
Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp
(Way People Live)
Diane Yancey. 1998
Manzanar: Photographs by Ansel Adams
John Armor & Peter Wright. 1989
May Sky - There is Always Tomorrow: An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko
Haiku
Compiled by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo.
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
Ed., Gordon H. Chang. 1997
My Six Years of Internment: An Issei's Struggle for Justice
Rev. Yoshiaki Fukuda. 1957
Nisei: The Quiet Americans
Bill Hosokawa. 1969
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
Ed. Lawson Fusao Inada.
Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II
Tomi Kaizawa Knaefler. 1991
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of
Civilians. United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of civilians, et al. 1997
Prejudice, War and the Constitution: Causes and Consequences of the Evacuation of the Japanese
Americans in World War II
Jacobusten Broek, Edward N. Barnhart, & Floyd W. Matson. 1970
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Prisoners Without Trial
Roger Daniels. 1993
Reminiscing in Swingtime
George Yoshida. 1997
Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Leslie T. Hatamiya. 1993
Second Kinenhi: Reflections on Tule Lake
Tule Lake Committee. 2000
The Spoilage
Dorothy Swaine Thomas & Richard S. Nishimoto 1946
Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Ronald Takaki. 1989
The Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
Lauren Kessler. 1993
Through Innocent Eyes: Writing and Art from the Japanese American Internment
Poston I Schoolchildren, Vincent Tajiri, Ed., Keiro Services Press, 1990
Tule Lake: From Relocation to Segregation
Harold Stanley Jacoby. 1996
Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study
Ed., Yuji Ichioka. 1989
Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II
Gary Y. Okihiro, Joan Myers (Photographer). 1996
Why She Left Us
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto.
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
Michi Nishimura Weglyn. 1996
Links
Manzanar War Relocation Center - National Park Links
https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/home_a
way.html
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http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/resources/camps.html
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/camp.html
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/internment/pdf/teacher_
guide.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/internment/
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=3694
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